Leif Oleson-Cormack
Event info
About Leif Oleson Cormack:
His one-man-show, “The Disney Delusion” received a sold out run at the 2021 Edmonton Fringe Festival and had a cross-country tour of the Canada Fringe Circuit in 2022, where it was nominated for the Just for Laughs Award for Outstanding English Comedy at the Montreal Fringe. He was the winner of the 19th Annual Calgary FunnyFest Comedy Competition and has performed at a number of festivals including The Grindstone Comedy Festival, Craft Island Comedy Festival, Cleveland Comedy Festival, and the Seattle International Comedy Competition. As a comedian, he co-runs a weekly comedy showcase every Tuesday night at 9pm at Blakbar Tavern.
He was the lead narrative designer and writer for The Low Road, a point-and-click adventure game for Mac and PC developed by XGen Studios and was a narrative designer and writer on the game, “Tails: The Backbone Preludes” for EggNut studios.
He is also an award winning playwrite. He graduated from The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights program and The University of Calgary where he received his MFA in Playwriting. He has also studied at the Banff Centre, Primary Stages, Magnet Theatre, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and Second City.
Host: Strater Patrick
Featured Guest: Les Fox